Oh ok, if that is so, my apologies. Irony is hard to read on here.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
I just mean there is a difference between telling someone personally with your own voice vs. posting a video that reaches a thousand people simultaneously and is admittedly not posted in full faith.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 02:57 (nine years ago) link
The police are also there to protect moneyed interests, of which a mortgage company is #1. Versus, say, a video game commentator.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, if it is someone you know you can gauge their intent, with a stranger you can't tell, absent past interaction or public history, whether they are a wackjob who will drive across country to kill you.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 02:59 (nine years ago) link
Just because twitter has a wide audience does not diminish the fact the threats in question are clearly directed at a specific person!
Not to mention some of the women having gotten privately sent emails/messages/videos of genuine threat. Are they also no real?
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:00 (nine years ago) link
No they are definitely real. Maybe I should have said "Not of importance to authority figures" instead.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
I mean, look at the writings or Internet comments of any spree shooter. People might say all kinds of shit, but some of them are completely for real, and it's not random citizen's ability to tell which is which.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
OK I accept theyre not "real" to the authorities, but that just goes back to the point I was making. They should be.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:14 (nine years ago) link
Is threats over a carriage service not a crime in the US? It is in my country.
offs people.
mh, the zing was cheap in that i understood your intent was not to trivialize non-anthrax threats
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link
The US justice system has a great deal of issues, particularly at the moment. I am putting this extremely lightly.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:21 (nine years ago) link
ah, I rest my arguments
also when I read carriage I thought of a horse and buggy
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:22 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "particularly at the moment"
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 03:23 (nine years ago) link
http://badassdigest.com/2015/03/03/davis-aurini-fired-from-serious-investigative-documentary-the-sarkeesian-ef/
― IHeartMedia, the giant broadcaster formerly known as Clear Channel, (stevie), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
entertaining
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 22:58 (nine years ago) link
This is gonna be great
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:05 (nine years ago) link
shocked
― goole, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
#teamdavis
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
The difference between writing something on the internet and calling a 30-year-old national mortgage company and verbally saying something is pretty great. For one thing I'm sure Countrywide has a strict policy about what to do when someone says something like that. Their entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:30 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also LOL at the number 2 result when I googled Countrywide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political_loan_scandal
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:31 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I'm guessing you weren't very old yet in 2008-09
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Old enough to have Insider Money in Politics Scandal Where No-One Goes to Jail fatigue.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
omg that link upthread
Cinephiles everywhere have been following the production of The Sarkeesian Effect, a work of serious investigative journalism that we first mentioned back in August. Spearheaded by skull fancier Davis Aurini and bathrobe couture pioneer Jordan Owen, it seeks to expose the corruption and collusion of Social Justice Warriors like Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn, including but not limited to their reckless squandering of crowdfunded money.
I was not aware there was a fiduciary duty between crowdfunder and crowdfundees.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:44 (nine years ago) link
that's a parody right? I mean that reads like the Onion.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 01:04 (nine years ago) link
It is entirely sarcastic.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
I hope Aurini lost the skull in the divorce
― Andrew Kornfan, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6:42 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No, I mean the fact that Countrywide was basically at the epicenter of the mortgage crisis and would no longer exist if not bought by Bank of America. Just kind of lulzy to say that the House of Mozillo's "entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk."
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 02:29 (nine years ago) link
xp i was totally fooled, i admit, though it was real
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
It is a sarcastic article about a real thing that is happening
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 02:49 (nine years ago) link
it's not THAT different from the actual pro-GG articles that are out there
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
oh come on it's laid on so thick
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
If "bathrobe couture pioneer Jordan Owen" isn't a dead giveaway then I dont something.
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
All that’s left to do is “the editing, the animations, and possibly a bit of fact-checking” - which any filmmaker knows are minor and even unimportant elements of the documentary process.
― bonkers candle ancestors (reddening), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
ok i admit i probably stopped reading in earnest by that point
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
Aurini hit back with some highly charged language. He goes on a lengthy rant about Owen, whose “irrational jealousy of [pick-up artist, MRA, and “love tourist”] Roosh, and any man who’s able to relate to women easily”
Man, red pill infighting is a treat.
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
I love how none of these logic-based knowledge masters got anything in writing. Amateurs.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
i gather that this controversy has sort of been pared down to nothing but true die hards on all sides, which means a lot of personal drama which thankfully even i don't have the curiosity to get into
however, i checked the feed of one dude who's always seemed like a good, reasonable writer, and found this funny exchange:
https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign/status/572661703860625408
see the responses from 'nikolov' -- the argument is basically: a harrassment-soaked sewer is what makes gaming great. i honestly think they should have gone with this argument from the beginning
― goole, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
lmao @ gamergate auteur beef so perfect
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 March 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
good job google
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/573660135165419520
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
so many platforms so many social accounts so much engagement its tuff
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 March 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
lol, there was no reason to hit that wasps nest and yet
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 March 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
they were just like "i will tweet a meme"
― lag∞n, Friday, 6 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
*dies*
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Friday, 6 March 2015 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I bet they thought #GamerGate referred neutrally to the dispute rather than to one side in it.
― jmm, Friday, 6 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
or that account is run by a hardcore gamergater who thought he was posting it to his personal @killsarkeesianlol account
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 6 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
The picture of the hand and the controller, how does it work
― 龜, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
is that supposed to be male and female hands on either side of the controller?
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
The right hand is taking the controller away from the left hand.
― jmm, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
lol
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
http://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2y30o2/gdcrant_this_years_gdc_wasdifferent/
"I saw gender neutral bathrooms, that was weird and a bit unnecessary. I used one, but I wouldn't consider myself gender neutral, I just really needed to take a shit."
― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
the urge to take a shit seems pretty gender neutral to me
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
[–]MyLittleFedora 59 points 17 hours ago
Great post. This hipster attitude that's becoming increasingly more prevalent in game Dev is ultimately harmful to the industry. To the outside world it makes game development look childish and adolescent. We must remember that game development is, first and foremost, a software engineering discipline.
It also puts normal people off entering the industry when everyone looks and dresses the same.
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― goole, Friday, 6 March 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link